While we don't write essays for students on this site, we are happy to help you get started by giving you some ideas. :-) If I understand the assignment correctly, you are to write about how there are disadvantages to getting one's news stories from newspapers, as opposed to the internet or television, is that correct? If so, one obvious disadvantage is the time lag. Newspapers are always several hours behind the times of the events they are informing us about, because of the time it takes to print and distribute the paper itself. Of course, most major papers now have the option of reading them online, by subscription, which helps keep them more current. As with any media, there is also the possibility of bias creeping into the stories, too. That applies to all types of information which is distributed to the public, of course.